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Reunion is not some isolated place with no population... there are nearly one million people there and many divers... including good ones that know their stuff like Hughes Vitry... it is just almost never seen...
Actually, Copps, When Yuri and I went to meet Daniel Pelicier... I remember he told us, The Guezei Angel was high up on the list of fishes he would love to have caught. He tried several spots to find it in Mauritius and surrounding areas but in vain. According to him It's an Angel who'd be living way beyond the 100m mark, something I won't be surprised too.
Well Auem, Reunion island reef probably more or less have the same diversity of Mauritius, Just that Reunion island is slightly a younger island...... (They have larger Gem tangs less deeper too):spin1:
Daniel is a great man... you guys are lucky to have met him... he's contributed so much to ichthyology and the hobby... and while he's dived deep, "deep" is a relative term, and there is a good possibility A. geuzei is at Mauritius deep... but there is also the possibility this species is similar to Centropyge debelius... when the holotype debelius (the holotype... not the first!) was caught at Mauritius by Rich Pyle and Helmut debelius it was not that deep... Rich went VERY deep on a number of dives expecting to find the population density there, but to no avail... so perhaps like debelius, A. guezei has its major population center in some undiscovered place... Species like A guezei though keep angelfish nuts like us so excited, as it makes us wonder still how many undiscovered Pomacanthids there are out there...
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